Talk:Suecophile

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This article should not be speedy deleted as lacking sufficient context to identify its subject, because... (your reason here) --Outer Image (talk) 22:07, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why should this article be deleted? It may be short and could be built out, but it doesn't make sense to want to delete it. Help develop it instead. Outer Image (talk) 22:07, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article should not be speedy deleted as lacking sufficient context to identify its subject, because the term obviously exist and should be described in the encyclopedia. --Tara M. Lee (talk) 22:46, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Resan västerut and IvanScrooge98: There's been a slow edit war adding and removing Swedophile. Let's discuss.

My edit summary when I added it back was "It's true that there's no source and I can not find a reliable source giving a definition, but a web search clearly shows that the word is in common use and its meaning is clear." The response has been that it is not sourced. That's a good point, but I think mine is legit too. What think you?  SchreiberBike | ⌨  22:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the only way to settle this is providing sources. I’ll put myself at work. ~ IvanScrooge98 (talk) 23:02, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added the best I could find with a quick search. They should work just fine. ~ IvanScrooge98 (talk) 23:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. "Swedophile" is not the correct word. Suecophile is a word created in the same way as Anglophile or Francophile, words which are not interchangeably used as "Englandophile" or "Franceophile". The Labrador Connection (talk) 16:57, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Except “Francophile” and “Anglophile” have a wide and established usage compared to “Suecophile”. As you can see, I even referenced an academic paper using “Swedophile”, so the argument in your edit summary that it is a slang word does not add up. ~ IvanScrooge98 (talk) 20:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@The Labrador Connection: Wikipedia can't be a judge of what is or is not correct. Wikipedia looks at the sources and reports what the sources say. Words change meaning over time and new words are coined. Swedophile seems to me to be common enough to be included. Wiktionary has an example from 1935. SchreiberBike | ⌨  20:12, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]